Research

I am an economist by training. At my day job, I am a business school professor. However, I consider myself as more of a generic social scientist.

My research interests include consumer behaviour, communication and interaction, data-driven decision making, digital technologies and more.

Mentoring:

Emil Mirzayev (PhD advisor, SKEMA Business School, 2018-2023, Currently at University College London)

Ecem Delicik (PhD co-advisor, SKEMA Business School, 2018-2022, Currently at École Polytechnique )

Imen Bouhlel (Postdoc mentor, Université Côte d'Azur, 2019-2020, Currently at Université Côte d'Azur)

Ismaël Rafaï (Postdoc mentor, Université Côte d'Azur, 2018-2020, Currently at Aix-Marseille School of Economics)

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Publications

Peer reviewed papers

• [A28] Bagozzi R., Soscia I., Babutsidze Z. (Conditionally accepted) Yes, we care! Consumer emotional responses to corporate neglect of climate change and the role of individual differences. Journal of Consumer Affairs.

• [A27] Zylbersztejn A., Babutsidze Z., Hanaki N., Hopfensitz A. (2024) How beautiful people see the world: Cooperativeness judgments of and by beautiful people. Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization 218:296-308

• [A26] Babutsidze Z., Guerzoni M., Riso L. (2024) Time varying effects and firms' survival: A novel data-driven method for drift identification and variable selection. Eurasian Business Review 14:285-318

• [A25] Timus N., Bartlett M., Bartlett J., Ehrlich S., Babutsidze Z. (2024) Fostering inclusive higher education through universal design for learning and inclusive pedagogy – EU and US faculty perceptions. Higher Education Research and Development 43:473-487

• [A24] Babutsidze Z., Blankenberg A.-K., Chai A. (2023) The effect of traditional media consumption and internet use on environmental attitudes in Europe. Journal of Evolutionary Economics 33:309-340

• [A23] Rafaï I., Babutsidze Z., Delahaye T., Hanaki N., Acuna-Agost R. (2022) No Evidence of Attraction Effect Among Recommended Options: A large-scale field experiment on an online flight aggregator. Decision Support Systems 153:113672

• [A22] Babutsidze Z., Hanaki N., Zylbersztejn A. (2021) Nonverbal content and trust: An experiment on digital communication. Economic Inquiry 59:1517-1532

• [A21] Babutsidze Z., Iacopetta M. (2021) The Emergence of Money: Computational approaches with fully and boundedly rational agents. Computational Economics 58:3-26

• [A20] Zylbersztejn A., Babutsidze Z., Hanaki N. (2021) Predicting trustwothyness across cultures: An experiment. Frontiers in Psychology 12:727550 [Open Access]

• [A19] Long T., Kleerebezem R., Pantaleon N., Babutsidze Z. (2021) Does the fact of undergoing natural hazards influence people’s environmental values and ecological commitment? Environmental Values 30:539-564

• [A18] Zylbersztejn A., Babutsidze Z., Hanaki N. (2020) Preferences for observable information in a strategic setting: An experiment. Journal of Economic Behavior and Organizatoin 170:268-285

• [A17] Bradley G., Babutsidze Z., Chai A., Reser J. (2020) The Role of Climate Change Risk Perception, Response Efficacy, and Psychological Adaptation in Pro-environmental Behavior: A Two Nation Study. Journal of Environmental Psychology 68:101410

• [A16] Babutsidze Z., Valente M. (2019) Trick of the tail: the role of social networks in shaping distributional properties of experience-good markets. Industrial and Corporate Change 28(3):459-475

• [A15] Babutsidze Z., Chai A. (2018) Look at me saving the planet! The imitation of visible green behaviour in local regions and its impact on the climate value-action gap. Ecological Economics 146:290-303

• [A14] Babutsidze Z. (2018) The rise of electronic social networks and implications for advertisers. Technological Forecasting and Social Change 137:27-39

• [A13] Babutsidze Z. (2018) Pirated Economics. South-Eastern Europe Journal of Economics 16(2):209-219 [Open Access]

• [A12] Babutsidze Z. (2017) Duopolistic competition with captives. Metroeconomica 68(4):903-926

• [A11] Babutsidze Z. (2017) Consumer interaction and innovation incentives. International Journal of Computational Economics and Econometrics 7(3):280-301

• [A10] Babutsidze Z. (2016) Innovation, competition and firm size distribution on fragmented markets. Journal of Evolutionary Economics 26(1):143–169

• [A9] Babutsidze Z., Iacopetta M. (2016) Innovation, growth and financial markets. Journal of Evolutionary Economics 26(1):1–24

• [A8] Timus N., Babutsidze Z. (2016) Pirating European Studies. Journal of Contemporary European Research 12(3):783-791 [Open Access]

• [A7] Babutsidze Z., Cowan R. (2014) Showing or telling? Local interaction and organization of behavior. Journal of Economic Interaction and Coordination 9(2):151–181

• [A6] Babutsidze Z., Lomitashvili T., Turmanidze K. (2013) Influential individuals on social networks: An example of Facebook in Georgia. European Scientific Journal 9(Dec.Spec.4):320–330 [Open Access]

• [A5] Babutsidze Z., Lomitashvili T., Turmanidze K. (2013) The structure of the Georgian blogosphere and its implications for information diffusion. International Journal of Social Network Mining 1(3/4): 280–297

• [A4] Babutsidze Z. (2012) How do consumers make choices? A survey of evidence. Journal of Economic Surveys 26(4):752–762

• [A3] Babutsidze Z. (2012) Asymmetric (S,s) pricing: Implications for monetary policy. Revue de l’OFCE 124:177–204 [Open Access]

• [A2] Babutsidze Z. (2011) On the performance of the representative agent during out-of-equilibrium dynamics. Economics Bulletin 31(1):874-882 [Open Access]

• [A1] Babutsidze Z. (2011) Returns to product promotion when consumers are learning how to consume. Journal of Evolutionary Economics 21(5):783–801 [Open Access]

In edited volumes

• [B4] Chai A. and Babutsidze Z. (2023) Evolutionary Consumption Theory. In the "Handbook of Evolutionary Economics"; K. Dopfer, R. Nelson, J. Potts and A. Pyka [Eds.], Routledge. pp. 261-274.

• [B3] Timus N. and Babutsidze Z. (2022) Building Human Capital for the 21st Century. In “Digital Transformation and Disruption of Higher Education”, Kaplan A. (Ed.), Cambridge University Press. pp. 147-158.

• [B2] Long T., Pantaléon N., Kleerebezem R. and Babutsidze Z. (2018) Perceptions du changement climatiques et engagement écologique [EN: Climate Change Perceptions and Ecological Engagement]. In "Guide de la transition écologique et citoyenne", pp. 83-86.

• [B1] Babutsidze Z. (2012) Consumer learning through interaction: effects on aggregate outcomes. In "Evolution, Organization and Economic Behavior," G. Buenstorf (ed.), Cheltenham: Edward Elgar.

Peer reviewed conference proceedings

• [C6] Delicik E., Dibiaggio L. and Babutsidze Z. (2023)  Collaboration Networks and Inventor’s Creativity: The Interplay Between Knowledge and Brokerage. Academy of Management Proceedings (AOM 2023). 15224.

• [C5] Di Russo M., Babutsidze Z., da Costa Pereira C., Iacopetta M. and Tettamanzi A. (2022) Agent-Based Modeling for Studying Spontaneous Emergence of Money. Proceedings of the 21st IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence and Intelligent Agent Technology (WI-IAT).

• [C4] Babutsidze Z. and Vincileoni D. (2022) Behavioral changes associated with interacting with bots on Twitter. Proceedings of the 54th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS-55), pp. 3013-3010 [Open Access]

• [C3] Mirzayev E. and Babutsidze Z. (2022) User control and acceptance of recommender systems. Proceedings of the Southern Association of Information Systems annual conference (SAIS 2022). 15.

• [C2] Babutsidze Z. and Vincileoni D. (2022) Trails of automated social bots. Proceedings of the Southern Association of Information Systems annual conference (SAIS 2022). 14.

• [C1] Mirzayev E., Babutsidze Z., Rand W. and Delahaye T. (2021) Use of clustering for consideration set modelling in recommender systems. Proceedings of the 54th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS-54), pp. 4270-4278 [Open Access]

Other Contributions

• [O7] Fišar, M., Greiner, B., Huber, C., Katok, E., Ozkes, A., and the Management Science Reproducibility Collaboration (2023). Reproducibility in Management Science. Management Science 70(3):1343-1356.

• [O6] Babutsidze Z., Bradley G., Chai A., Dietz T., Hales R., Markowitz E. and Nesta L. (2018) Public Perceptions and Responses to Climate Change in France. Research Report. Université Côte d’Azur: Nice. [Open Access]

• [O5] Babutsidze Z. and Nesta L. (2018) Le changement climatique en France: Croyances, comportements, responsabilités [EN: Climate Change in France: Beliefs, behaviours, responsibilities]. OFCE Policy Brief No 43 [Open Access]

• [O4] Napoletano M., Gaffard J.-L., Babutsidze Z. (2012) Agent Based Models: A new tool for economic and policy analysis. OFCE Briefing paper No 3 [Open Access]

• [O3] Babutsidze Z., Lomitashvili T., Turmanidze K. (2012) Influencers and Followers on Facebook in Georgia. Research report. Academic Swiss Caucasus Net. [Open Access]

• [O2] Babutsidze Z. (2012) A comment on “On ants and voters: Maximum entropy predictions of agent-based models with recruitment” by Sylvain Barde. Revue de l’OFCE 124(supplement):33-36 [Open Access]

• [O1] Babutsidze Z. (2012) A reply to Tiziana Assenza’s comment on “Asymmetric (S,s) pricing: Implications for monetary policy”. Revue de l’OFCE 124(supplement):44-46 [Open Access]